When New York Government extends her Eastern Boundary, to the Banks of Connecticut River between New York and the Colony of Connecticut, & to the Banks of said River, between New York & the province of the Massachusets Bay, it wou'd have been full early for New York to declare that the Government of New Hampshire was fully apprized of the Right of New York under the before recited Letters pattent to the Duke of York.

In Virtue of the final determination of the Boundary Lines Settled me his late Majesty between this Government, and the

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Massachusetts Bay, all the Lands capable of Settlements have been erected into townships, agreeable to His Majesty's Commands, and a Considerable Revenue is daily arising to the Crown, unless interrupted & impaired by His Honors Proclamation, which New Hampshire will not be answerable for.

At present the Boundarys of New-York to the Northward are unknown, and as soon as it shall be His Majestys pleasure to determine them, New Hampshire will pay a ready and chearfull obedience thereunto, not doubting but that all Grants made by New Hampshire that are fulfilled by the Grantees will be confirmed to them if it should be His Majestys pleasure to alter the Jurisdiction.

For politicall Reasons, the Claim to Jurisdiction, by New-York might have been deferred, as well as the Strict Injunction on the Civil power to exercise Jurisdiction in their respective Functions, as far as the Eastern Banks of Connecticut River.

The said proclamation, carrying an air of Government in if, may possibly affect & retard the Settlement of His Majesty's Lands granted by this Government, for preventing an Injury to the Crown of this kind, and to remove all doubts that may arise to persons holding the Kings Grants, they may be assured that the patent to the Duke of York is Obsolete, and cannot convey any certain Boundary to New York that can be claimed as a Boundary, as plainly appears by the Several Boundary Lines of the Jerseys,on the West, & the Colony of Connecticut on the East, which are set forth in the Proclamation as part only of the Land included in the said patent to the Duke of York.